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Sooo, by now a good few of us will have seen repaints of Universe Silverbolt as Darkwing and Cybertron Defense Red Alert as Countdown. I can sneakily tell you guys they're exclusives for next year, had heard various whisperings a while back. Silverbolt's a really lacklustre mould, but I dig Darkwing enough to shell out for that. Countdown, though, that's an inspired and welcome choice, I like it much more than I would've liked Perceptor from that mould. Of course, Doubledealer would've been even better..

onslaught86 wrote:Sooo, by now a good few of us will have seen repaints of Universe Silverbolt as Darkwing and Cybertron Defense Red Alert as Countdown. I can sneakily tell you guys they're exclusives for next year, had heard various whisperings a while back. Silverbolt's a really lacklustre mould, but I dig Darkwing enough to shell out for that. Countdown, though, that's an inspired and welcome choice, I like it much more than I would've liked Perceptor from that mould. Of course, Doubledealer would've been even better..

Countdown is one I might pick up, since I have the original. The massive change in size for the character is amusing, and Micromaster homages are always welcome. But while I like Silverbolt, Darkwing doesn't look like Darkwing as much as he looks like Silverbolt in different colors. The repaint just doesn't work to convince me that it's a different character. I guess Silverbolt is too distinctive. This one really needed some remolding somewhere to work.

Maybe it's the fact that I thought Silverbolt sucked, but Darkwing looks really really cool.

Countdown is one I might pick up, since I have the original. The massive change in size for the character is amusing, and Micromaster homages are always welcome.

I assume this is intended to be Countdown prior to his downsizing, ala the DW canon. Which is neat. Micromaster homages I'll agree on if they're Micromasters 'worth' homaging, there's too many of them that I will never ever care about.

while I like Silverbolt, Darkwing doesn't look like Darkwing as much as he looks like Silverbolt in different colors. The repaint just doesn't work to convince me that it's a different characte

The paint on the head helps a lot there, I really can see it as Darkwing and am kinda excited. I don't like Silverbolt much thanks to his ridiculously basic transformation, lack of moving parts to justify the price point, and terribly implemented sound and light gimmicks (Arrrgh, his eyes only light up DURING transformation, and his backpack's upside down, and he has the same sounds as Powerglide). Yet I 'do' like Darkwing, this feels a lot more like him than Dreadwind seemed Dreadwindy. Now I'm gonna have to get a Dreadwind, since I sold the one from the set I imported.

Also, Darkwing is fifty times cooler than the sheer meh that is Stormcloud. Heh.

onslaught86 wrote:Also, Darkwing is fifty times cooler than the sheer meh that is Stormcloud. Heh.

I like Stormcloud, but not enough to pay Ultra prices for a repaint.